Difficulties when reading poetry

Poetry to me is more of an emotional art that I don't understand. Poetry is difficult for me because I have never really understood why it is written the way it is. Most poetry I read it is hard for me to interpret what the poet is trying to get across/what the poetry is about just in general.

Reality that's masked

I think that the MMA(mixed martial arts) is masked. When I used to watch MMA with my dad I thought that it was just jacked guys who knew how to fight really good. I later found out that a lot of fighters used steroids. In every sport I know of steroids aren't allowed and the player would get put on probation/banned. This is surprising to me because MMA has grown a lot in the media over the past few years. With an up and coming sport one would think that steroids would be prohibited. I think that not putting a strict restriction on drug tests is clearly an unfair advantage and it takes the fun out of the sport.
 http://www.mmafighting.com/2014/11/29/7243045/nick-diaz-most-fighters-for-the-most-part-like-their-steroids

Reactions to readings

1. I thought that the story had a lot of emotion and detail. He was describing how he lost his wife. He never directly stated it but with throughout the story the reader can come to that conclusion. His son put on a wig that reminded him of what his wife's hair had looked like. At first he wanted him to take the wig off, but then I feel like he started to see part of his wife in his son and became less mad and felt more of a sadness.








What goes on in your head?
When I make a mistake or say something stupid I'll keep asking myself in my head why did I just do/say that. I'll replay a lot of events that happened or conversations with people or advice/sayings from my parents

Imagery

Bird
-something out of a children's book. There are books, a cookie, and a lot of different colors in this picture.
-I think that the artist was really trying to focus on the bird and all of the colors by doing a plain black background
-There are a lot of different textures throughout the different colors/shapes




Black figure


-a black figure falling out of the sky
-there isn't really any texture and it's mostly all black and white
-mad men
- 9/ll




Image 3


-Starving child, I think that the vulture is waiting for the child to die so he can be his meal
-place where there is no food or water
-seems very dry/little grass
-makes me wonder where his mom/tribe is

Interpreting literature notes

Interpretations
-intentions vs. readers reaction
-experience
-context (time period/era, authors background/history)
-language---- how it's said
-imagery
-culture
-gender
-writer's age/reader's age
-sexuality

Reflection on feedbak

I thought that the peer review helped me see my paper through someone else's perspective. I got good feedback on things/ideas that I could expand on. The feedback somewhat compared to my expectations. He told me that he came across quite a bit of grammar/sentence issues that I wasn't expecting. He also told me that I had good detail in a lot of areas which I also thought I did well.

Peer review

I think that I need to further explain myself in some areas. Shorten/elongate some paragraphs. I probably have some grammar errors, run-ons, etc. Sometimes I have trouble getting out the words I am trying to say/thinking if.




I think that my classmate will probably agree on some of the things that I think I need to work on. I might not have explained myself enough from someone else's perspective besides my own. Some questions I have are: what areas in my paper need work? Do I need to further explain myself in a certain part? Maybe take out or add something?

Event that defines character

It was my senior year of high school and I was on cloud nine. It was near the end of my last high school soccer career and I was ranked in the top ten scorers in Minnesota. I was committed to The University of North Dakota to play division soccer on a seventy-five percent scholarship. It was shortly after I has just played the game of my life when my vision and dream for the future came to a stop. It was the semi-final game or I guess you could say the big game you had to win in order to advance to go to state. It was a huge aspiration of mine to make it to the state tournament. I felt that my high school soccer career was not complete without making to the state tournament with the history behind my schools soccer program.....

The time in my life when

I played soccer for a well-known premiere soccer club. Everyone on my team committed to play division 1 or division 2 college soccer and I was the only one on my team that did not further my soccer career. My coach had put a lot of time and effort into training all of us to play college soccer and I felt that he was disappointed I chose not to.






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Personal Narrative example

- Good introduction, caught my attention
-I liked the story she told behind why her loved ones are more important than money
-Descriptive/painted picture in my head
-Good details/descriptive in beginning. Lacks details/not descriptive towards ending
-Conclusion too short
-Got lazy towards the end